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It would also be a nice move of HN to help them out since this is a huge problem in the startup world!
Take a few moments with yourself this evening to seriously think about why this might be.
Your reaction here is also a part of the problem—these kinds of behavior have been extensively documented inside and outside this industry for nearly a hundred years now. You deny and belittle these people's lived experiences with no data of your own to back it up besides banal theories and "cartoonish" ideas of how people operate in the world.
Another thing for you to think about before you respond to this with your poorly researched screed is that there are literally no upsides to Susan for reporting this stuff. All the data we have show that women who report these kinds of behavior get blacklisted from the industry, shunned by their peers, and perhaps face legal action. This doesn't even count the tidal wave of harassment, death threats and worse that comes along with exposing men in power for doing bad things (depression, suicide, paranoia, etc). Think about how awful your own situation would need to be to open yourself up to that sort of thing. No one does this lightly and without cause, and yes this stuff happens all the time and even worse.
Another good read to improve your ignorance of the matter: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/technology/uber-workplace...
Most poor people, even those with a single job must work _at least_ 8 hours a day, 7 days a week to come close, but nowhere near enough, to supporting themselves—let along improving their station in life. And this is simply their job. Add onto this time that must be spent taking care of children and parents.
This class of individual is not going to be able to find time, even on a weekend, to vote because our society is explicitly engineered to put them at a disadvantage in time, capital, and thus political influence.
It still seems like a lot of software and time to just start developing. What does passenger get me for developing locally that Pow doesn't? (I've never used Passenger before today).
When this finished, I got an error and it all failed: "* ERROR: Please install file-tail first: sudo gem install file-tail"…
So I did and now its supposedly running on Port 3000 except I just get a 403 error when I visit it in my browser. The docs aren't very helpful either (http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Standa...).
Update: I apparently missed the line about going to my application's root directory. I still didn't really like all the stuff that got downloaded and compiled on my machine, when all I would like to do is get started developing.
At least in this instance you can read over the commands that will be run beforehand—in fact, Sam actively encourages you to do so.
I think you'll probably find that answer is, well, no. What's my ROI on knowing if a site runs Rails? I'm really trying hard and coming up with a blank.
What does your site do that I can't accomplish in a simple email to the site's owner? You're basically arguing a value proposition over my laziness to send an email and wait a day or so for the result, which isn't a lot.
We'll be doing exclusive chats and some new types of content that only subscribers can see, but the normal Ars bread and butter will be free for all.
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There are a million tools for users to control their browsing experience ... in the browser. Do not force it in your application.